The Myanmar Opium Survey 2024 issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says that after three consecutive years of growth, the area where opium is cultivated fell by 4% to 45,200 ...

Officials in Myanmar have destroyed nearly $300 million worth of illegal drugs with massive drug-burning ceremonies taking ...

Myanmar authorities incinerated illegal drugs valued at USD 300 million to combat rampant trafficking. The destruction ...

Authorities incinerate vast quantities of opium, heroin, methamphetamine, and other narcotics in major cities to mark ...

Myanmar officials burned $300 million worth of illegal drugs, including heroin and meth, amid rising trafficking. The UN ...

‘We do this to survive’: Harvesting opium poppies in Myanmar’s Shan State. Poppy cultivation and methamphetamine production has surged in Myanmar amid the country’s grinding civil war.

Myanmar officials destroyed over $300 million worth of illegal drugs, including opium, heroin, and methamphetamine.

Myanmar has a long history of drug production and is a major source of illegal drugs bound for East and Southeast Asia.

BANGKOK (AP) — There has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, experts from the United Nations ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Officials in Myanmar's major cities destroyed about $300 million worth of confiscated illegal drugs Thursday. The destroyed drugs included opium, heroin, methamphetamine ...